Re: Internal Representation of Strings

"cr88192" <cr88192@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> "Tony" <tony@my.net> wrote in message news:09-03-001@comp.compilers...
>> "Armel" <armelasselin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> <snip>
>>
>> My goal is to get away from all the APIs that use null-terminated
>> strings,
>> so I will be replacing all of that. Not needing that null terminator
>> would
>> be an indication of success of a string implementation that wished to
>> depart from that paradigm.
>
> what is the problem with NULL-terminated strings anyways?
> my code uses them all the time with no real ill-effect...


But if you were doing it from scratch, would you implement strings as
null-terminated?


> so, maybe the big question that can be asked is:
> really, why do you so much dislike the NULL-terminated strings?...


Many reasons. Not the least of which are that they are bad and the
implementation is ugly. ;) (Read: I don't feel like retyping
everything already said a thousand times that is is bad about
null-terminated strings).


Tony

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